Rise Of Low Cost Android Phones

Android has really helped unconventional phone manufacturers to go smart phone! Earlier, not too many vendors had smart phones released to market. Thanks to Android! Anyone with the basic H/W can push phones to market. This is a success story of Open Source and Google has been manufacturer friendly with no rules for their OS to run on phones! Below is a phone, Huawei Vision – a hi-end Android smart phone (may not be cheap but compared other hi-end phones, will be cheaper). Earlier, I’ve never heard of Huawei making touch screen smart phones! Huawei makes other low cost phones such as Huawei Ideos. Also, there is a hoard of new low cost manufacturers in India who do Android phones such as Videocon, Karbonn, Spice, Lava etc.

 

Addictive Open Source Games

Well, games are always fun and one of the most rewarding industries in Computer world! Remember? Doom from ID Software that created the revolution! Now, the new trend is Open Source games. Plenty of them around and some of them are listed here. Courtesy Open-Tube. All games here are free and open source.

• Flight Gear – A 3d flight simulator. Very good and free.
• Assault Cube – 3d game like Doom.
• Rigs of Rod – A vehicle simulator! Cool one. You can eve drive a 16 wheeler too. Check it out.
• Torcs-NG – A racing game.
• Cube 2 – Sequel of game Cube, a worthy 3d game, highly addictive game. I love it for the game play.

• Alien Arena – A combination of Quake and Unreal Tournament. Wonderful game.

There are plenty more here and you could check them out here, all of them for free :)

DimDim - Cheaper alternative to WebEx

If you are looking for a free (or cheap) alternative to WebEx, you may want to look at DimDim.

Dimdim is an easy and affordable open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with audio/visual streaming and chat, with absolutely no download required to host or attend meetings.

DimDim company has just released the latest and the better version 4.5 to the general public with some cool features like SynchroLive Co-Browsing, Recording and playback of meetings, Share Mac & PC Desktops etc

DimDim comes with three flavors,

• DimDim Free (up to 20 attendees)
  
• DimDim Pro (up to 100 attendees)
  
• DimDim Enterprise (up to 1000 attendees)

Key features of DimDim:

• It’s Easy, Open & Affordable
• No Install to Host/Join meetings
• Easy Share Screens & Webpages
• Audio & Video Conferencing
• Present PowerPoint and PDFs
• Private & Public Chat
• Whiteboard & Annotations
• Record and Playback Meetings
• Open Source and open APIs

I have presonally used DimDim Free to provide technology presentations to a small group of people scattered across the globe and the performance was really good. I have also used WebEx extensively in the past and felt that DimDim was more intuitive and easy.

DimDim is highly recommended to have an easy, effortless web meetings at a cost less than a third what you would pay for WebEx or similar conferencing product.

DimDim is getting a lot of attention due to its good performance and now it has even made it to the Top 100 Products of 2008 by ReadWriteWeb.

Please check DimDim pricing information at http://www.dimdim.com/products/dimdim_editions.html

To know more, Please visit www.dimdim.com

DimDim 4.5 Intro Video:

For more, Please check out DimDim Channel at http://in.youtube.com/MeetFreely

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